Pinna nobilis: mortality events in Italy and Spain linked to the co-presence of pathogens
In recent years, mass mortality of the noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis), a marine bivalve mollusc, has been reported in the Mediterranean, with an outbreak ...
Isolation of a strain belonging to a new Salmonella serovar
The Italian National and OIE Reference Centre for Salmonellosis of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) has identified a strain of Salmonella attributable to ...
New data on the duration of immune protection against SARS-CoV-2 in children
A study published in the "Pediatrics" journal shows that children with mild forms of COVID-19 develop a greater and longer lasting antibody response than that ...
ConVErgence, a EU funded project for assessing swine as potential hosts for emerging Coronaviruses
Swine farms and coronavirus risk Farms represents potential hotspots for the spillover and amplification of viruses that could either cause epidemics in animals or ...
VetBioNet: final call to access laboratories and samples of the network
VetBioNet is an infrastructure project - funded by the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020 - that aims to establish and maintain a comprehensive ...
Genetic characterization and spatial analysis of HPAI H5Nx viruses identified in Europe over the period 16 October – 24 November 2020
This report describes the genetic characteristics of the complete genomes of 27 European HPAI H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 viruses recently identified in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, ...